Date

Tue / Nov 4

Location

To Be Announced

Time

6:30 pm
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Park Avenue Synagogue’s Beren Scholars Program, in partnership with UJA-Federation’s PACT program, invites high school students and their parents to a dinner and discussion on Israel with Yardena Schwartz, an award-winning producer who was based in Israel until 2023 and is the author of “Ghosts of a Holy War.” 

Registration,  $18 per person, includes dinner and one copy of “Ghosts of a Holy War” per family. Registration coming soon.

About Yardena Schwartz

Yardena Schwartz is an award-winning journalist and Emmy-nominated producer who was based in Israel for a decade until 2023. Her reporting from four continents has appeared in dozens of publications, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Review of Books, The Economist, TIME, National Geographic, and Foreign Policy. Yardena previously worked at NBC News and MSNBC. She graduated with honors from Columbia Journalism School in 2011, received an Emmy nomination for her work at MSNBC in 2013, and the RNA award for excellence in magazine reporting in 2016. Yardena now lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with her husband and children. Ghosts of a Holy War is her first book.